I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say “you're one of us now kid”

Be at your best at all times.